Sugar And Spice Cookies

[Guest guest]

These are like nothing I ever had while growing up, but when I saw the recipe I

was drawn to trying them. My mom made some kind of molasses cookies

that were soft and big; kind of cake-like and delicious. While these are small,

frosted and melt in your mouth addictive.

 

Sugar And Spice Cookies

 

3/4 cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup molasses

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp salt

 

Lemon Frosting:

2 cups confectioners sugar

3 Tbs butter or margarine, softened

1 tsp grated lemon peel

3 to 4 tsp lemon juice

 

In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add egg; mix well. Beat in

molasses. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture and mix well.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350 for

8 to 10 minutes. Remove to wire wracks; cool. For frosting, cream sugar,

butter and lemon peel in a mixing bowl. Gradually add lemon juice, beating

until frosting reaches desired spreading consistency. Frost cookies. Yield:

about 4 1/2 dozen

 

~ P_T ~

 

 

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is

the deepest part of autobiography.

-Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905-1989)